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 1216 TREATY WITH THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. FEBRUARY 25, 1862 under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations, or- es. tablishments of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports of the dommions and possessions of either country upon the vessels of the `other country which shall not equally, and under the same conditions, be nmposed in the like cases on national vessels in general. _ Such equality of treatment shall apply reciprocally to the respective vessels, from whatever port or place they may arrive and whatever may be their place of destination. _ Meaning or ARTICLE X. All vessels, which, according ‘to the laws of the United W¤'d"V°¤*°l¤·" States, are to be deemed vessels of the United States, and all vessels which, according to Ottoman laws, are to be deemed Ottoman vessels, shall, for the purposes of this treaty, be deemed vessels of the United States and Ottoman vessels, respectively. Goods 0; the ARTICLE XI. No charge whatsoever shall be made upon goods of the United States United States, being the produce or manufacture of the United States of §1‘:“bfd£:}’1§: America, whether in vessels of the United States, or other vessels, nor upon any goods the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country carried in vessels of the United States, when the same shall pass through the Straits of the Dardanelles, or of the Bosphorus, whether such goods shall pass through those straits in the vessels that brought them, or shall have been transhipped to other vessels; or whether, after having been sold for exportation, they shall, for a certain limited time, be landed in order to be placed in other vessels for the continuance of their voyage. In the latter case, the goods in question shall be deposited at Constantinople, in the magazines of the custom-house, called transit magazines; and in any other places where there is no entrepot, they shall be placed under the charge of the administration of the customs. mmm dma Anrxcrn  The Sublime horte, desiring to gratnt, by means of reduced from gradual concessions, all facilities in 1tS power to transit by land, it is
 * 1;;** gfx22h *° stipulated and agreed that the duty of three per cent. levied up to this

P time on articles imported into the Ottoman empire, in their passage through the Ottoman empire to other countries, shall be reduced to two per cent. payable as the duty of three per cent. has been paid hitherto, on arriving in the Ottoman dominions; and at the end of eight years, to be reckoned from the day of the exchange of the mtifications of the present treaty, to a fixed and definite tax of one per cent., which shall be levied, as is to be the case with respect to Ottoman produce exported, to defray the expense of registration. The Sublime Porte, at the same time, declares that it reserves to itself the right to establish, by a special enactment, the measures to be adopted for the prevention of fraud. _p’¤ited States Anmcnn XIII. Citizens of the United States of America, or their '::;;':_?gl';°u’ 1*;;: agents, trading in goods the produce or manufacture of foreign countries, 35 rmagu wb. shall be subject to the same taxes, and enjoy the same rights, privileges, iw-¤· and immunities, as foreign subjects dealing in goods the produce or manufacture of their own country. q-0;,,,,m md Anrrcnn XIV. An exception to the stipulations laid down in the Sa-l*· Vth Article shall be made in regard to tobacco in any shape whatsoever, and also in regard to salt, which two articles shall cease to be included among those which the citizens of the United States of America are permitted to import into the Ottoman dominions. Citizens of the United States, however, or their agents, buying or selling tobacco or salt for consumption in the Ottoman empire, shall be subject to the same regulations and shall pay the same duties as the most favored Ottoman subjects trading in the two articles aforesaid; and furthermore, as a. compensation for the prohibition of the two articles above mentioned, no duty whatsoever shall in future be levied on those articles when exported from the Ottoman empire by citizens of the United States.